so much

Yikes, I haven't been here for a while.

So much is going on and keeping me busy. I have been doing a lot of furniture "things" and moving a lot of heavy furniture and throwing out my back. Thank goodness I'm a therapist and have all the bells and whistles at my disposal cos it was hell.

We also fostered a dog for a few days, her name was Stella and she was lovely and I sort of hoped I would fail at fostering in a good way but it all sucked and I failed in a bad way. more on that later.

Crazy girls are doing great, the homeschooler is as happy as a clam working at the pace she sets and the pickle is doing great in school.

I'm starting a new venture and it is taking the last few minutes of my time but it will all be unveiled soon.

I'm not sure whether to be proud or scared that the girls are such good grafitti artists but they are and proved it with this re-vamp.

as always, no before photos

I wanted a space that was Rosies and showed her. 

drawing on furnitre is very therapeutic

these are gorgeous aren't they. they have nothing to do with this post but they make me smile. 

ode to uncle john............

..........and a little bit of daddy.

My uncle John never threw ANYTHING away. EVER.
He taught me many many things in life but possibly the most important thing I learnt from him and I only realised this as an adult, was this: you can do anything you want in life and be called eccentric if you have the right surname and a little money but if you don't have those things you are a social outcast.  That man marched to the beat of his own drum and everyone loved him. He got away with things that no one else could. When I say he never threw anything away, I mean other than actual rubbish. He saved everything. Think, 500 bike wheels, kind of saved everything.

My Father swears he isn't like him but he is, a little bit. Walk into his workshop and you can find anything that you need for any project and eleventy billion other things too. I am the exact opposite, i HATE stuff, HATE IT. I have a sort out twice a year and purge any extraneous items.

So what has happened to me recently that I have started dumpster diving? Holy sh*t it's in my genes. I'm doomed. I need a 12 step program. But it is going to be hard to stop and join a 12 step program when I see something as ugly as these windows......

and realise that with a little hard work they can be tranformed.

I knew the second I saw them sitting in the trash that they would be fabulous and now they are. A friend of mine is going to take some photos of the girls and I just for these frames.

If I was going to use these pictures I would have used the word school and not family.

Do you like them big brother? You said you were waiting to pass judgement.
Oh and I found the hardware, I had put it on my desk with the monthly bill paying stuff.

Option 1

Option 2 and how I plan to use them. Obviously these are not hung yet. 

I actually sold my first piece of wood work the other day. Who would have thunk!

I saw a chair this morning whilst the kids and I were out walking and collecting wood but I think it might actually have belonged to the house it was at so I left it. It would be embarrassing if I got arrested for stealing. LOL . But I instantly had brilliant ideas for said chair that involved polka dots.